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American music, from folk to jazz and pop.

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16mm Film, Series: American music, from folk to jazz and pop., Educational Film, Popular music, American music, History of music, History of music, American music, Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974, Peter, Paul, and Mary (Musical group), Bennett, Tony, 1926-
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McGraw - Hill FilmsLast known address - 674 Via De La Valle, PO Box 641Del MarCA92014USA
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Commentary by Duke Ellington

Traces lesser streams of American music such as the hoedown, square dance, and hillbilly song. Tex Ritter at Nashville's Grand Ole Opry discusses country music. A close relation, folk music, is discussed and performed by Peter, Paul, and Mary

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Traces the development of popular music or jazz in American history and life. Presents pictures and reproduced music that show the African and European roots in New Orleans jazz and gospel./ia metadata americanmusicfroongs and dances. Includes performances by old time and recent artists.

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This is not the fruit with the monkey on the jerk it is on the mountain jig in the Ozarks of Arkansas. Done now as it has been in this part of the country for several hundred years. For most of our history the square dance and the hole down have been the principal form of entertainment in our rural areas where professionalism has been more the exception than the rule but with the music explosion in recent years. Country music tunes went part. I gave. A loud remotivate no way you may believe that a group of you can likely not over a way to run a mile be able would like the back of my way above the. One group that broke through international music markets. Jim and Jesse and the Virginia boy. Niceville Tennessee the country and western music capital of America. Where once mountain people saying their songs in isolated valleys there now stands a music Kingdom resting on a booming entertainment and recording industry the tops I have two billion dollars gross per year. In recent years the major recording companies and more than a dozen in the smaller independents opened modern recording studios in this valley town to meet a now greater demand for the Nashville sound in Newsweek markets across the country and abroad. The Grand Ole Opry of Nashville the Metropolitan of country and western music has been a reservoir of talent and a showcase for a country artist for nearly two generations. Well once it's applied the stable Saturday night nationwide broadcast of country music on radio it now has expanded operations to include syndicated and network television as well. That article going to bring along with him with an odd Conoco run a very long name it and I'm going to try to make a long with a Madonna parallel all the way or see an amount of. The hillbilly entertainer Mike strangling a great favorite in many rural areas is much less in evidence in the new country music image. Thank. God it's recent fortieth anniversary celebration of the Grand Ole Opry brought together the many forms of country music which now represents the new law in the Nashville sound like the style of the browns of Arkansas Bonnie Maxine and Jim Edwards. The new trend is toward smoothness and polish close harmony on balance with a country flavor. Thank. The pure country strain is preserved or tries to preserve itself in bluegrass music group little of the mandolin and a banjo and Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys yearned for the. Not style just barely feel of the bank pipes but the song is a full out of another tradition. I don't. Read to start. Taking fish. While he. My nine hundred sixty four country music influenced by the popular forms broke through its regional bounced and entered the national pop music arena. If you. Borrow for a. It is the music of the heart of America and the base of the American musical tradition says Grand Ole Opry stuff. Thanks Mr and I roots. Are in the songs. Of the possibly the British Isles is a cave you if you were to trace you see those of the songs that were from the southern mountains many of the people that settled the West they came from the south I mean like in the Texas and Oklahoma. Their roots are in the south they came from Tennessee from Virginia from parts of Kentucky. Carolinas Georgia is there went west and the dust of many of these people with this. To California. See Texas people are can solve people in Oklahoma the Grapes of Wrath there are American people. The people in the larger cities are being invaded. Today by country music stations music editor Paul Ackerman of Billboard magazine. Country music is very popular internationally this is a valid point of the last five years. Japan France and has many radio programs patterned after Grand Ole Opry the Japanese artists will even appear in Cowboy uniform similar to the God views on the affray and then Nashville at the Ryman Auditorium. We contemporary urban folk singers Peter Paul and Mary. Were forming here at the Newport Folk Festival. Their song reflection storing of use today their dissatisfaction their warnings to the older generation of the need for adaptation to changing time. To. Music has always contributed to the popular music of America. Merrill. With the civil rights movement in various forms of student protest in recent years. Use it again found a lighter popularity and is forced to stop in American popular music. Speaking for the group. Mary Travers sense of their music. Because it's because of what is real and there is a direct straight simple reality of that and I think that is why I have become very popular with young people and while a faint sound as if. I mean it is meant to die in. That period but basically you're doing great sounding this classic. Despite the fragmentation of Tin Pan Alley and the development of music centres across the country New York City still remains a major center of the music business and a stronghold of traditional popular music. American feel her music and rich by the contributions of such great says Jerome Kern George Gershwin Cole Porter and others still predominates on Broadway and as it has for many years continues to be a major influence on popular music. One of our current writers of show music is Richard Rodgers across my area is Broadway this is where I live my life. Around so working is if you are trying to. Show our relationship between a boy and a girl. Simplify it. If facing a short course of a song. You can tell more about that feeling toward each other than you can with ten pages of script in which they just talk. Music a sort of catalyst. It's very strong and fact that all my people cry like the black to make them dance. One man who can make people laugh and make people cry was his music. Tony Bennett a singer of songs the tell a story he has been deeply influenced by the tradition of the Broadway musical theater. Lonely night. This girl. Just. Doing. Like water under pressure. Music seeks many outlets it is constantly changing and evolving influencing and being influenced by other forms dance style. Despite the multitude of forms that have developed in recent years the light acceptance of traditional popular music continues. In a rose areas. Day today. A loving man the year of the thirty's in the forty's. A way after the Second World War two new forms of popular musical expression. The great jazz combination is of that time were fragmented and individual musicians found outlets in smaller groups around the country like Gene Krupa renowned drummer of the Benny Goodman band whose art is still displayed but in a different sense. Thank. The police. After the swing. Era and World War two was the broad stream of jazz was diverted into many channels deepened by the expert musicianship of fine artist like Dizzy Gillespie John Lewis the loneliest moment and others there are now as many styles of jazz as there are good musicians playing it including the modern but still very basic jazz sounds of such groups as the Billy Taylor trio. Jan's today appeals to a smaller and more discerning audience much still influences the broad stream of popular music. Jazz is many faceted deleted. There are many aspects of jazz but no matter what your musical preference is there is some kind of years they're almost fits into that category if you like rock and roll. There's kind of jazz that is very close to rock'n'roll if you like classical music there's another kind of years it's very close to classical music and if you like other types of popular music like show two. There's a kind of jazz it's very close to the structure and performance of Shelton Duke Ellington one man who stands astride a broad span of popular music. Bridging the African and European heritage in America for over forty years for the Negro. Has had a major influence on the total culture of America which of course as I say an American. Greatest I'm aware of the music. Situation today is resupplying where it isn't necessary for categories I think that. What people here in music is either. Gribble to. If this is news it is agreeable to my. Why does it have to have a category I don't see my meat it sounds good. I mean if you say for examine the whole thing depends upon the performance anyway and you can take. Probably. But the most trite of all of the things that people complaining about that. Oh and you give it to one of the great hot as you know like Sinatra SR. Exxon. And. You plan to get a chance of a performance. American popular music. Derived from music of other lands and other times is today. Moving out across the world. Re unflinching the very sources of its own origin. One example the worldwide popularity of such recording artists as Tony Bennett who hear interprets an old song in a new way. With dot com dot. Hi Donna. She went to find a job on the trolley. With my light brown derby and mom bright green I was quite alone in the midst of a man. To stand up. As Duke Ellington says Good music is not a matter of Category one of talent. Popular music is Americans greatest cultural contribution to the work. The fact of our diversity is our richness and our strength of flowing together of our many cultural streams has created something new something distinctively a Maori. Bank plane went to China. When so. When the motor. Oil will break. Down. The list on C. S I did my hand. I said I want. You to get me half a day. Where the first. Bombing was when we. Stopped. Doing that I am. Studying.
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